Ron Paul cooperates with no one, checks his voice for no one and doesn't much like the GOP establishment types. This would include the GOP's likely nominee, Mitt Romney, template maker in Massachusetts for all things nefarious accomplished by Barack Hussein Obama but brought to a national audience.

Paul has declined to endorse Romney, but given the army of organized pitchforks he has attracted over the course of a run or two at the party nomination, the man has won a seat at the convention table.

USATODAY.com reports that room will be made for Ron Paul in the convention, and it is reported that Paul's platform delegates are being included in the planning of the platform document. Additionally, GOP planners have lent assistance in Paul's arrangements for using the Sun Bowl in Tamap to host a rally for his supporters.

The article reports something like the guy has 500 delegates ready to rumble and the GOP doesn’t want him off doing a rally on his own like he did last time. They are being very accomodating to everyone’s favorite uncle. /s

I am so jealous his army pulled it off and ours scattered like sheep.

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posted on 07/23/2012 10:09:25 PM PDT
by RitaOK
(NO ROMNEY, NO COMPROMISE. NO WAY. NO HOW. NOT NOW. NOT EVER.)

Ron Paul is a sleazy, dishonest liar who worked to get Romney the nomination all the while pretending to be independent. During the debates Ron Paul was Romney's little attack dog. He went after the other candidates and protected Romney.

Ron Paul has been in Congress since the 1970’s. He is the ultimate Washington insider. During his time in Washington the size of government increased dramatically and Ron Paul did nothing about it.

Ron Paul is supported by Code Pink. He called traitor Bradley Manning “an American hero”.

Ron Paul is a lying hypocrite and the country would be better without him.

Ron Paul is not a libertarian. Ron Paul is a slimy opportunist and a lying Romney attack dog. I am surprised there are still people in this world stupid enough to believe anything he says. Someone should post all the Stormfront stuff and the other sick garbage Ron Paul supports.

Before everyone gets their panties in a wad. Obama is already starting to make the moves to destroy our military.Ron Paul will just drive the knife into their backs.I thought it was clever how the Obama military haters are going to cut Benefits for veterans and wounded soldiers.Wonder how far enlistment will drop on that one.

The USA Today article does not show Ron Paul fighting with the Romney people; rather, it describes him in close cooperation with them. Paul has not publicly endorsed Romney but has almost certainly promised to do so.

Thanks for the help? I think. (I do appreciate the link very much. I couldn’t get it to post into my very first vanity.)

“Rant”? Where?

Etiquette?

The point IS that Ron Paul has not endorsed Romney.
The other point IS that Ron Paul got a seat at the table anyway, without endorsing Romney, quite without etiquette.

I never said a word about the article showing “Ron Paul fighting with Romney people”, though, it is obvious to all he is not enthusiastic to endorse Romney. The man knows how to bargain. A seat at the table in exchange for an endorsement. See how it’s done?

The article, on the subject of an endorsement, did NOT say Ron Paul “has certainly promised to do so”.

It was an opinion paragraph with the beholder’s eye choosing to call it a “rant”.

We post and learn. You are free to do a bang up better job than I, and I would be delighted to see it, actually. But, you didn’t.

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posted on 07/23/2012 11:32:45 PM PDT
by RitaOK
(NO ROMNEY, NO COMPROMISE. NO WAY. NO HOW. NOT NOW. NOT EVER.)

In all actuality, it’s RuPaul’s fault that we’re stuck with Mitt Trotsky as the Republican nominee. Bachmann, Gingrich, and Santorum were assaulted day in and day out and in ad after ad by RuPaul and his Army of Paultards. The three Conservatives had to spend more time and effort (and not to mention money) than was necessary on Scoobey Doo Villian Paul and his outrageous attacks on them.

If you want to congratulate Jew hater Paul for basically giving us the choice between a Marxist in Chairman Obama and a socialist in Mitt Trotsky, be my guest. It’s a semi-free country after all. But when it’s all said and done, it was RuPaul who helped the leftward path we’re on now.

When it’s all said and done, Ron Paul will be a meaningless footnote in American history, and rightfully so. He wasn’t a Conservative, he wasn’t a libertarian, and he certainly wasn’t a “champion of the Constitution” like he claimed on the campaign trail. He was a kook, on the same level as Ralph Nader and Dennis Kucinich.

It’s easy to get support when you say no gov’t, no taxes, etc.
He promised the sky that he could NEVER deliver - it just sounded good! People lose their brains and ability to think with some of these politicians. RP ia not an honest man.

What Newt promised he KNEW he could deliver - and, also, the things he would change; like reign in the activists judges - he knows the law of the land like no other candidate!

I didn’t follow Ron Paul’s campaign but for his role in the debates, where I applauded right along with the audience applause, but booed when the audience booed. When he was right, Ron Paul was dead on right, but then he could come up with the darndest ideas and blow it all.

Whatever, he sure came up with an organization and will have influence beyond the primaries, according to the article in the USAToday.

Astounding that he cooperated with no one, and is now being taken care of and accomodated, while our side is in shambles sitting on the outside looking in.

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posted on 07/24/2012 12:48:51 AM PDT
by RitaOK
(NO ROMNEY, NO COMPROMISE. NO WAY. NO HOW. NOT NOW. NOT EVER.)

That's what I took from it too. Ron Paul's at the head of a genuine mass movement, which will permanently affect American politics. I don't quite know how, but he's been spectacular (given what he believes) at reaching the young. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Ron Paul was the long shot who, by all conventional rules, should have remained obscure.

The secret to his success is his, or at least his message's, appeal to youth. Sometimes, I wonder if some of the criticism of him here results from jealousy and sour grapes.

For the first time in a very long time, there's a good chance that a youngster will go off to college and not come back a liberal. The Ron Paul movement has accomplished that feat.

Moreover, for those who think that Ron Paulism is a genuine danger, there's reason for hope down the line. Once Ron Paul retires, his movement will likely fade into the background. Many people will say that it will have faded away entirely. But, the movement will have left a definite residue: a permanent skepticism about the use of government - and not just in war, either.

Remember, demographers such as Neil Howe were predicting that the Millenials would be a new "Greatest Generation" devoted to public service. In other words, they'd be a new breed of self-confident liberals. The Ron Paul movement has gone a long way towards derailing that.

Also, keep in mind that kids who are conservative at heart become genuine conservatives when they mature. Rand Paul is already being denounced by libertarians as a sellout: here, for example. Many of today's Ron Paul youths might well be middle-age Burkeans in twenty years' time.

Now that primary season is effectively over, it might be worth everyone's while to drop the hostility towards the Ron Paulians on these two grounds:a) Libertarian is better than liberal;b) The kids will grow out of it.

There's evidence that some libertarians are conservative at heart. The notion that "libertarian" implies "pro-choice" is actually controversial in those circles. At least one hard-core libertarian has argued in digital print that a true libertarian must be pro-life.

And what if the Ron Paulians grow up to be liberal? If they do, then they'll be liberals with foxes in their bosoms. They will be less confident when pushing government "solutions," and some of them will always be half-hearted.

Primary season is now over for Ron Paul, permanently. There's less reason to be aggressively defensive now - and more reason to leave a key under the "Go Away" mat.

When Romney wins Nov 6, the looney, mentally-unbalanced Paultard gutter-rats will get thrown under the bus on Nov 7, where they belong. With all the dead and illegal lib-dem trash going to vote, it’s AB0 (Anybody But 0bummer), and Mittens/GOPe need *everyone* to get the Traitor-in-Chief out of The White Crib/Hut, even the crackpot fringers.

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posted on 07/24/2012 3:07:02 AM PDT
by carriage_hill
(All libs and most dems think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)

No, really, if Mitt’s people are telling him that Sarah Palin would be a cancer on the campaign and Ron Paul wouldn’t, he needs to fire them. Not because they hate Sarah Palin, but because they’re idiots. And if he doesn’t see that, he’s an idiot.

I knew sooner or later all ye who Hate Mitt and Mormons and who no doubt (at least the majority thereof) come from the camp of disalusioned and sore losers who supported this wack job would make their true reasons for attacking Mitt known and I was not to be dissapointed.

The secret to his success is his, or at least his message’s, appeal to youth. Sometimes, I wonder if some of the criticism of him here results from jealousy and sour grapes.

The youth are able to see that the emporer has no clothes. The establishment of both parties are little more than mafia using government to take from the people that actually make the country work and give it to the well connected. Any serious conservative would insist on a Fed audit. Whether or not Paul is who people think he is, there is a sizeable chunk of voters who are fed up with tweedle dee tweedle dum politics and Paul has tapped into it.

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posted on 07/24/2012 4:49:20 AM PDT
by freedomfiter2
(Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)

I knew sooner or later all ye who Hate Mitt and Mormons and who no doubt (at least the majority thereof) come from the camp of disalusioned and sore losers who supported this wack job would make their true reasons for attacking Mitt known and I was not to be dissapointed.

Oh please. People hate Mutt for the same reasons that they hate Kennedy, Obama, and Hilary. He’s a leftwing, big government type that will just push America down the road to destruction.

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posted on 07/24/2012 4:53:06 AM PDT
by freedomfiter2
(Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)

We need to realize that we (that’s a TEA Party “we”) have a lot in common with the Ron Paul supporters. A lot of them don’t like his stance on Iran, for instance, and are very much with us on fiscal responsibility issues. Let’s not create future divisions where they should not exist by being too harsh on his followers, as many here are (not you, I’m just not naming names).

I spent a good bit of time talking to Paul delegates at GA GOP conventions this year. We need to work with these folks, we as conservatives have a lot in common with them. They dislike the GOPe as much as we do, but in many cases mistake us for being part of them. Explaining that is how I learned they often don’t like Paul’s foreign policy blissninnyism.

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